Unable to import AVCHD (BMDV) movies to photos app since High Sierra update

Thank you for your answer, yet it is of no real help.

How did you move the video files to the fotos database and were the dates correct ?

I have a brand new Sony Alpha II and only the pics are recognized.

Any word on this? My students are giving presentations that I can now record, but if I want to get them off the camera I'm SOL unless Apple comes through and soon.

Note I just downloaded the newest "update" hoping that would fix things. It didn't. I get now some error 1718449215 and nothing happens. I can't even open the movies out of the AVCHD file.

I'm still trying to get to Apple Support on the phone and have lost the phone number and can't find it with Google. My case number is

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There was a "ProVideo" update for various codecs on Dec. 15th (JST) that gave me high hopes.

Unfortunately after installing I'm still having the same problem, so, no dice quite yet. Hopefully it's just a matter of time.

Hi Flash:

I spent 2 hours today with a Senior Apple Engineer. There is a go around... It's called VLC Media player. It will open the mts files in Apple. I've been trying to figure out how to tell Quicktime to use it so it will work with Premiere but so far I haven't been able to do that. The Apple engineer told me that they will be working hard on this the next days and will have update to fix it soon.

Thanks for your efforts, Mickeyfilm. It looks like too many of us, me included, have spent too much time complaining on forums and assuming that Apple were paying attention, instead of badgering them directly. I'm a freelance professional, myself, so I can appreciate how frustrating it must be to lose a client to someone else's foul-up.

Very unfortunate that I have to use iMovie or Quicktime as a workaround to importing videos that I never plan on doing much editing of except maybe a trim.

First, iPhoto lost (or never had) the ability to read exFAT cards (>32GB) and now Photos loses the ability to import AVCHD.

Frankly, that's a regression and a malicious one given there was obvious intent and no notification that I am aware of...

I ran into this yesterday and it significantly screwed up my workflow and cost me an extra hour of time. Happened again today with a brand new SD card. Photos doesn't recognize videos on the card yet my MacBook running regular Sierra recognizes them just fine. Importing via-Media Encoder and VLC brings the files in with no audio.

This is ridiculous. COME ON APPLE.

Thanks for the condescending response. And what is the point of anyone posting here if Apple doesn't check in? I thought they patrolled the boards. Is that only at Adobe? How do I bring this to their attention?

And it's realize.

Really annoying to see how Apple goes with every new OS release the wrong way. I think this will be the last OS update I do when this bug is solved (if not, I'll return to Sierra). Each year less features and more problems with simple things like this one.

Sorry for the rant, but it's frustrating to remember the old slogans like "it just works!" being not relevant anymore with each new OS or iOS releases.

Although I had uninstalled Perian, I still found this codec in the location you mentioned. This solution worked for me, so thank you very much.

Running iMovie 10.1.8 on OS High Sierra 10.13.3 on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)

I've called with Apple for 50 minutes and we have found a solution to import AVCHD video's in Photo's.

We uninstalled Perian and Flip for Mac from the preferences panel.

After that a NVRAM reset took place. (P+R+Command-Option during a restart)

Then I could open the video's from my camera to Quick Time and could save them as Quick time movie. After that I could move the file to Apple Photo's.

So, the program still can't import the files directly, but with this solution you again could use the AVCHD files on your Mac.

Perian is long gone, and I never had Flip 4 Mac. Did a NVRAM reset on my own and tried to open AVCHD.

Nothing. Same issues as before. The Photos app won't even recognize the AVCHD file to import (it is greyed out).

I've been fighting this as well and finally took an .mts file into MPEG Streamclip. It says it's an unsupported file type but it converts it to an .mov with audio. Might take awhile depending on the amount and length of clips but it works.

on rx100,plug in to mac ,switch on as usual -- open photos , create a new folder eg sony video, then open the no name hard disk folder for the camera on desktop, then open the private folder, you see the avhd file , then open it but control-click it and on the drop menu click "show package contents , do the same again when it shows BDMV , open the stream folder and there are the individual videos with dates . select the ones you want and drag them into the folder you aready created in photos . Done

Its quite quick but ....

Apple should reinstate the original import or at least have the courtesy to say they were dropping it . Hours of wasted time Apple.